Re: Building i686 optimized packages from source

2002-12-28 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 09:47:26PM +0100, xio wrote: > In your opinion, is the performance gain really worth the effort of > compiling from source? In most cases, no. There are a few exceptions (see the archives) and for these exceptions, optimized versions are normally already available. -- J

Re: Building i686 optimized packages from source

2002-12-28 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 09:47:26PM +0100, xio wrote: > In your opinion, is the performance gain really worth the effort of > compiling from source? Nobody's ever demonstrated it to be worth it for more than a small minority of packages. -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL P